…5/8-09: I believe in mysteries

68º in ABQ; 20% humidity at 6A…someone is ‘following’ my Blog!; GAQ; 140 acres burned near Timberon, small blaze near the Sandias; fire is 20% contained; riot during bingo game in the gym at YDDC as a reward for good behavior, about 100 inmates involved, guards ran out of handcuffs: E-mail warning was ignored; FEMA will help pay for battling state fires; LANL budget cuts by Obama, increase in funds for Sandia Labs?; an environmentally friendly school being built; a ‘sister’ is following Azzarb?; two of three window vandals have been arrested; always keep store coupons with you; NMSU interim PRES stepping down; Welcome! ‘My Love is Only Yours’; the APT is cool again; Four Corners adopt four day school week; first 2009 Hanta Virus case in NM; record highs reached in Santa Fe, Roswell & Ruidoso; Max, our DJ, is preparing for the opening of our 'online' disco; first person arrested on voyeurism charges; 23 new H1N1 cases in NM, bringing the total to thirty-one, plus there are three probable cases; photo ID needed to renew lease at The Beach; and so, my vacation ends; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Jenny has heard about P’town; don’t ask questions, just enter it, and code it, possibly causing duplicates; enjoyed PM ice cream social; Jenny & I traded more ‘life stories’; missed the Montgomery, missed the Eubank, there was a slight breeze in the NE Heights; arrived home about 6P; finals week = ‘stress test’; AIDS Awareness Day was this week at UNM; ‘Relish’ is gone;

Providence fog; severe weather: KS, KY,TN T’storms, St. Louis, Louisville, Lexington, Nashville, with Ping-Pong & hen egg sized hail; storms have stalled over the OH Valley; AR is under water; three hour flight delays; AL floods, after some areas received ten inches of rain; NYC storms, Dallas gusty winds; temps from 40s to 100s; CA blaze is just 10% contained, 18K people told to leave their homes, fire at the top of the MTN range, out of human control, three firemen sent to the HOSP, 3,500 acres have blackened; record heat in SW US; The Great Tornado Hunt on the Weather Channel;

Trident vehicle at Wrigley Museum?; former police officer Drew Peterson charged with murder of his third wife, could face sixty years in jail; banks are ‘basically healthy’, less job losses than predicted; one month for ‘poor banks’ to come up with a plan to raise money; baseball player took woman’s fertility drug, costing him over $7 million in his salary; CT college killer surrenders, had planned to shoot up the Wesleyan campus; six store fronts destroyed in MD strip mall, just outside DC; missing MO boy lost his diaper, found by his bare behind; Amazon’s electronic book reader cannot pronounce Obama’s name; Farrah Fawcett has stopped treatment for her cancer, has lost all of her famous blond hair; all it takes is one sneeze to infect many people, can last overnight in one location; jobless rate rises to 8.9%; Fannie Mae loses more money, needs more capital; 1,639 H1N1 cases in 43 states; 539K people were laid off during April; Louis Caldera quits after Air Force One fiasco; the porn star vs. the family values candidate; during hard times, trains make a comeback; buy a cheaper IPhone contract?; as of today, Boston is in second place; if student goes to the prom at another school, he will not graduate if it can be proven that rock music is played, or alcohol or sex was involved at the graduation party; NY doctor failed to perform brain surgery on a person, because it was not one of his patients; the DOW ended up; black bikers no longer wanted at Myrtle Beach, a decision that could cost millions in revenue; trolley collision in Boston injures fifty people; crown on the Statue of Liberty will reopen on 7/4/09; is the ‘worst’ of the recession behind us?…maybe, but the recovery will be slow;

the H1N1 virus is at the end of its current fifteen minutes of fame; the Holy Father is in the Middle East; foreign markets rising; Toyota report a yearly loss; oil has increased to $58.17 a barrel; gold is at $914.90 per ounce; could their be a mutant swine/bird flu lurking in the darkness?; huge chunks of ice breaking away from Antarctica; Hong Kong lifts its hotel quarantine ban;